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Has  America  a  National  Poetry?:     By  Amy  Lowell. 

The  Art  of  Garden-Making  in  America. 

A  New  Kind  of  Education  for  the  American  Girl:    By  Madame 

Yvette  Guilbert. 

New  Hopi  Architecture  on  the  Old  Mesa  Land. 

Gardens  of  Our  Great  Western  Deserts. 

Beauty  and  Efficiency  in  Small  American  Homes. 

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VOLUME  XXX 


Contents  for  July,   1916 


NUMBER  4 


THE  OLD  MILL 

IS    THERE    A    NATIONAL    SPIRIT    IN    "THE     NEW 
AMERICA? 

SUBTLE  STUDIES   OF  HUMAN  EMOTION   SHOWN 
TURE  OF  CHESTER  BEACH  .... 

Illustrated 

THE   ART    OF    GARDEN    MAKING:    Illustrated    by    Scenes    from    One    of 

"Vitale's  Gardens" 

BROADWAY'S  CANYON:  A  POEM  .      By  John  Gould  Fletcher 

THE  AMERICAN  GIRL'S  EDUCATION  NOT  HUMAN  ENOUGH:  Madame 
Guilbert  Suggests  a  Remedy         ......... 

Illustrated 

NEW  HOPI  ARCHITECTURE  OF  THE  OLD  MESA  LAND 

Illustrated 

THE  VANISHING  RED:  A  POEM  By  Robert  Frost 

THE  BEAUTIFUL  GARDENS  OF  OUR  GREAT  WESTERN  DESERTS       . 

Illustrated 

NEW   TYPES   OF   SMALL    HOUSES   THAT    COMBINE    BEAUTY    AND 
EFFICIENCY 

Illustrated 

THE  LAUGHTERS:  A  POEM  By   Louis    Untermeyer 

GARDEN  GATES  AND  ENTRANCES     .  By  E.  I.  Farrington 

Illustrated 

COOL  TOMBS:  A  POEM         ...  .          .       By  Carl  Sandburg 

THE  OLD  MILL By  John  Matter 

WINTER'S  TURNING:  A  POEM     .          .  -By   Amy   Lowell 

A  NEW  TYPE  OF  FURNITURE:  Elegant  in  Design  and  Rich  in  Color     . 

Illustrated 

AMONG  THE  CRAFTSMEN: 

Craftsman  Town  and  Country  Houses:  Two  New  Designs      .... 
Illustrated 
A  House  of  Seven  Fireplaces:  From  Craftsman  Inspiration     .... 

Illustrated 

A  Porch  of  Charm  and  Fragrance          .          .          .          .By  Albert  Marple 

Illustrated 

An  All-Cement  Chicken  House     .... 

Illustrated 

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Four  Popular  Craftsman  Houses  ........     429 

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THE  VANISHING  RED:  BY  ROBERT  FROST 

E  is  said  to  have  been  the  last  Red  Man 
In  Acton.    And  the  Miller  is  said  to  have  laughed— 
If  you  like  to  call  such  a  sound  a  laugh. 
But  he  gave  no  one  else  a  laugher's  license. 
For  he  turned  suddenly  grave  as  if  to  say, 

"Whose  business,  if  I  take  it  on  myself, 

Whose  business — but  why  talk  round  the  barn? — 

When  it's  just  that  I  hold  with  getting  a  thing  done  with." 

You  can't  get  back  and  see  it  as  he  saw  it. 

It's  too  long  a  story  to  go  into  now. 

You'd  have  to  have  been  there  and  lived  it. 

Then  you  wouldn't  have  looked  on  it  as  just  a  matter 

Of  who  began  it  between  the  two  races. 

Some  guttural  exclamation  of  surprise 

The  Red  Man  gave  in  poking  about  the  mill 

Over  the  great  big  thumping,  shuffling  millstone 

Disgusted  the  Miller  physically  as  coming 

From  a  person  who  the  less  he  attracted 

Attention  to  himself  you  would  have  thought  the  better. 

"Come,  John,"  he  said,  "you  want  to  see  the  wheel  pit?" 

He  took  him  down  below  a  cramping  rafter 

And  showed  him  through  a  manhole  in  the  floor 

The  water  in  desperate  straits  like  frantic  fish 

Salmon  and  sturgeon  lashing  with  their  tails, 

Then  he  shut  down  the  trap  door  with  a  ring  in  it 

That  jangled  even  above  the  general  noise, 

And  came  upstairs  alone — and  gave  that  laugh 

And  said  something  to  a  man  with  a  meal-sack 

That  the  man  with  the  meal-sack  didn't  catch — then, 

Oh  yes,  he  showed  John  the  wheel  pit  all  right ! 


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